Bohlinger George Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you can't fix everything," said Amina. "Life isn't always like books."
"No, it's not. — Helen Simonson

But the ship swept on, and the dusk hushed the hum of the day, and the first stars above blinked answers to the early fireflies on the banks as that jungle fell far behind, leaving only its fragrance as a memory that it had been. — H.P. Lovecraft

How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it. — Carolyn Parkhurst

Everything we get from whales can be obtained without cruelty. Causing suffering to innocent beings without an extremely weighty reason for doing so is wrong, and hence whaling is unethical. — Peter Singer

As Louis Uchitelle has reported in the New York Times, many employers will offer almost anything - free meals, subsidized transportation, store discounts - rather than raise wages. The reason for this, in the words of one employer, is that such extras "can be shed more easily" than wage increases when changes in the market seem to make them unnecessary.7 In the same spirit, automobile manufacturers would rather offer their customers cash rebates than reduced prices; the advantage of the rebate is that it seems like a gift and can be withdrawn without explanation. — Barbara Ehrenreich

You make one tribe out of twelve," I finally say. "By taking slaves."
Just like the Society. Build on the backs of others. It isn't cruel. It is practical. — Pierce Brown

We are all deserving of love. — Sandra Bullock

My mother had to justify the fact that she had heart pills. — Patrik Sinkewitz

Tell me what you want, and I'll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I'll tell you who you really are. — Brunonia Barry

Listen, days decay, like food, like fish,
like dead bodies. This night will decay, too and you will forget. Listen, we will forget. — Chigozie Obioma

I can tell you if you look at the polls, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, they do not think we should increase the debt limit. — Jim DeMint

You have to be more disciplined in what you do. You have to make the plays when you're supposed to make them. When the play is presented to you, you have to make it. We have to have guys flying around the ball. It will definitely be a good game to watch this weekend. — Takeo Spikes

The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage — Josephine Hart

I suspected (and still do) that I would love being a mother... — Kate Bolick